World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 2 , Pages 79-83 , February 2010

Adenosine-induced cardiac arrest during intraoperative cerebral aneurysm rupture

  • Teemu Luostarinen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Box, PO 266, FI-00029 Helsinki, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Riikka S.K. Takala, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Clinic, Turku University Hospital, Box, PO 52, FI-20521 Turku, Finland
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  • Tomi T. Niemi, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Box, PO 266, FI-00029 Helsinki, Finland
    • ,
  • Ari J. Katila, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Clinic, Turku University Hospital, Box, PO 52, FI-20521 Turku, Finland
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  • Mika Niemelä, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Box, PO 266, FI-00029 Helsinki, Finland
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  • Juha Hernesniemi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Box, PO 266, FI-00029 Helsinki, Finland
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  • Tarja Randell, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Box, PO 266, FI-00029 Helsinki, Finland

Received 25 November 2008 ,Accepted 17 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surneu.2009.06.018

World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 2 , Pages 79-83 , February 2010

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